Celebrating 170 years of lubrication excellence – CONDAT’s Journey of Responsible Performance
2024 marks a significant milestone for CONDAT as the company celebrates its 170th anniversary! Based on embodied values, such as its historical one ‘Build to last’, CONDAT has
demonstrated its ability to adapt, innovate and reinvent itself over the decades, leveraging its extensive and steadfast expertise.
For over 20 years, CONDAT has distinguished itself by providing the industry’s least impactful lubricants, with a special focus on operator health and environmental sustainability across various application fields. Biodegradable lubricants for agriculture or the wood industry, vegetable-based coolants for machining, and borax-free soaps for wire drawing are just a few examples of the initiatives driven by the company within its value chain.
This commitment is what CONDAT called Responsible performance. To this end, CONDAT has established the LUBRISCORE ® to offer its customers better visibility on its eco-designed products. The LUBRISCORE ® is a self-evaluation method that rates products based on life cycle criteria: Raw materials and design, Production, Transport, Use, End of life. Using a point system and responses to about twenty questions, the LUBRISCORE® assesses the level of eco-design in CONDAT products.
Providing safe, high-performance and low-impact products is the driving force behind CONDAT’s dynamic approach. Currently, 28% of raw materials are sourced from renewable resources, enabling the production of lubricants without petroleum basic constituents.
CONDAT also places significant emphasis on its overall impact. Decarbonizing its industrial sites has been on its strategic roadmap since 2021. By acting as a responsible industrialist, CONDAT proudly reports avoiding 3,860 tonnes of CO2 emissions in the past three years. This achievement is the result of concerted efforts by the company and its employees, including a new policy on deliveries, waste reduction, and projects focused on reducing water and electricity consumption, as well as gas and fuel usage.
All these efforts have paid off. CONDAT has been awarded the PLATINUM medal for its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by EcoVadis in 2021 and was renewed in 2023. This result places CONDAT among the TOP 1% of the best rated companies in the world.
How does CONDAT help the glass industry?
Based on its commitment to responsible performance, CONDAT leads the way in offering products with minimal environmental impact without compromising on performance and productivity. Beyond providing high-quality and efficient lubricants, CONDAT also distinguishes itself through personalized advice on implementing optimal lubrication solutions tailored to each glass-making plant. Aligned with its ethos of responsible performance, CONDAT aims to help glass producers consume less while achieving better results. In connection with eco-use, the CONDAT team conduct on-site assessments to reduce total glass process costs, enhance productivity, and maximize lubricant effectiveness, encouraging consuming the right quantity of lubricants.
Here below a couple of innovative & responsible lubricants dedicated to glass industry:
Embracing sustainability
The evolution of Non graphite Lubrication in the Glass Mold Industry
Graphite has long been a key component in swabbing grease formulations due to its high performance. Its origins can be natural (mining ore) or synthetic (full chemical process). However, it can cause defects like dirtiness and buildup in glassmaking. To address this, CONDAT offers lower-graphited and non graphite swabbing greases, providing a cleaner working environment and reducing graphite use. These greases not only replace graphite but also offer technical benefits such as increased thermal resistance, extending swabbing frequency by 3 to 5 times, and improving operator safety.
Additionally, CONDAT’s non graphite swabbing solutions are made from renewable vegetable-based and recycled refined oils. They have high flash points to limit fire risk and ensure equipment and co-worker safety, with safety data sheets free of hazardous pictograms.
IS machines fluids
Consume less
CONDAT’s GLASS HTS 250 IS, a 100% synthetic oil for central lubrication of IS machines, is approved by both glass plants and IS machine OEMs. It offers unique benefits such as low evaporation, high thermal stability, low oxidation and excellent lubricating properties. This lubricant reduces consumption by up to 50% compared to standard mineral oils and is free of heavy metals, chlorine, and solvents, further minimizing fire risks and maintenance costs. This product is available with a fluorescent dye that reflects easily under UV light. This allows maintenance to detect machine leaks very quickly and consequently lower lubricant consumption.
Swabbing greases for glass robot
Use the right quantity of product
The best waste is no waste. Using the right quantity of lubricant while maintaining high performance is a major issue at CONDAT. Equipment like MICRODOSE helps save 50% on consumables by ensuring reliable and constant dilution. Sprayable CONDAGLASS swabbing greases reduce product usage by seven times and eliminate dangerous manual operations, increasing productivity by 4%.
CONDAT, the glass making partner
Altogether, CONDAT’s lubricating solutions aim to reduce the glass industry’s carbon footprint by promoting responsible consumption and eco-use. With 170 years of expertise, CONDAT continues to adapt and innovate, leading the way toward responsible performance.
For over 30 years, CONDAT has supported the container glass industry, with around 200 customers worldwide relying on its solutions for productivity and safety. CONDAT addresses every aspect of the glass production process, offering high-value solutions for shears, scoops, deliveries, molds, and IS machine mechanisms.
With capacities to produce in different areas in the world, CONDAT can also apply its mantra: Think Global, Act local. Shorten transportation delay, reduce carbon footprint and invest in local companies are also CONDAT’s commitment to the glass industry!
To know more about this glass lubricants offer, contact CONDAT experts at Glasstec Düsseldorf, Hall 14 stand E11 or contact us.